Sentences with phrase «food insecurity affecting»

We heard the same story everywhere, a really disturbing picture about hunger and food insecurity affecting the wellbeing of some of the most vulnerable young people.

• Food insecurity affects 23 percent of black - headed households and 19 percent of Hispanic - headed households, compared with 9 percent of households headed by whites.

The Express Tribune: Food insecurity affects 60 per cent of Pakistan's population, University of Agriculture Vice Chancellor Iqrar Ahmad Khan said on Saturday.

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And I've continued to highlight on a regular basis the critical issue of food insecurity in this country, which presently affects one in four American children.

The NHF, one of 18 - country - based, pooled funds which allows donors to pool their contributions for a stronger and timelier response to the needs of those most affected by the ongoing crisis, including millions who face a high risk of food insecurity and disease outbreaks.

While illness is a leading factor in chronic early absence, others such as poverty, teenage parenting, single parenting, low maternal education levels, unemployment, poor maternal health, and household food insecurity all can affect school attendance.

I have also seen firsthand how difficult being a child in America can be, and how abstract policies affect my kids in very real, sometimes painful, ways: how food insecurity can drive families to our school's monthly food shelf, how incarceration inequity has many of my students writing personal narratives about visiting fathers and uncles in prison, how immigration laws left one of my students trying to hide his tears over his mother's possible deportation.

In urban and rural areas, wage - labor - dependent poor households that are net buyers of food are expected to be particularly affected due to food price increases, including in regions with high food insecurity and high inequality (particularly in Africa), although the agricultural self - employed could benefit.

Climate - related hazards affect poor people's lives directly through impacts on livelihoods, reductions in crop yields, or destruction of homes and indirectly through, for example, increased food prices and food insecurity.

In the coming decades, the issue of food insecurity is likely to affect almost all Indians.

Food insecurity can grow due to weather events, such as floods and droughts that affect conditions for sustainable food productFood insecurity can grow due to weather events, such as floods and droughts that affect conditions for sustainable food productfood production.

Food insecurity is a very real problem for many Americans, but who knew that it affected so many college students, too?